Behavior Management
Take charge of your routines: Learn how to manage your behaviors for lasting productivity and empowered living.
Unlock Potential: Align Actions with Goals Through Behavior Management
Do you ever feel like you’re spinning your wheels, struggling to reach your goals despite your best efforts? You’re not alone. For professionals like you, who are often inundated with constant distractions, disordered information, and competing priorities, aligning behavior with your goals is not just a productivity hack—it’s key to achieving success.
Recent Articles
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Rough Terrain: Why it’s Hard to Change
By Shawn Thomas, Certified Empowered Productivity Coach You’ve decided to make a change. Maybe you’re going to stop checking email, social media, or the news every few minutes. Maybe you’re going to exercise regularly, become a better listener, get organized, or finally delegate more. You start with enthusiasm. And for a few days, or evenRead More
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Dreading Mondays? 10 Weekend Habits to Beat the Monday Blues
If you spend Sunday night thinking about the work day on Monday, you might assume the problem is your workload. But often, the real issue could be how you spend your weekends. Most professionals structure their weekends the same way they structure their workdays: reactively. They scroll, they half-rest, they steal an hour to “getRead More
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7 High Performance Mindset Shifts That Protect Your Best Work
In our fast-paced work culture, traditional productivity tips often fail because they don’t address the root of the problem. To do your best, most meaningful work and truly improve workplace performance, you don’t just need new tools. You need to summon deep thinking, become mindful of your habits, and learn to manage your behavior. HereRead More
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Unfinished Business? 5 Habits To Get More Done
You get to work determined to focus on the one task that, when completed, will bring you so much closer to achieving your most important goal for the week. But then life happens…or work happens. You discover a mistake, or a problem that will take you several hours to fix. With slight frustration, you pushRead More
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Not Just ‘30 Days’: How Long to Really Change a Habit?
Ever feel like you’re stuck in a loop, those ingrained habits dictating your day without your even realizing it? You’re not alone. We all have those automatic behaviors, both good and bad, that shape our lives and hinder performance. But what if you want to break free from the unhelpful ones and build new habitsRead More
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Unlock Potential: Align Actions with Goals Through Behavior Management
by Maura Thomas and Shawn Thomas Key Points from this Article Introduction Learning and practicing behavior management will enable you to: Do you ever feel like you’re spinning your wheels, struggling to reach your goals despite your best efforts? You’re not alone. For professionals like you, who are often inundated with constant distractions, disordered information,Read More
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13 Habits That Hinder Productivity & What To Do Instead
While you probably do many things every day that contribute to your success, it’s likely you also have some habits that are making it much harder than necessary for you to achieve your most significant results. There are two types of behaviors we engage in throughout our day: deliberate actions and habits. Habits are usuallyRead More
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6 Tips for Working from Home: A Productivity Trainer’s Best Advice
This post was updated September 10, 2021 It wasn’t too long ago (even though it feels like forever!) that a majority of American workers sat at their office desks and wished they could telecommute instead. The longing was based on a need to reclaim time in their day, and maybe improve their work-life balance. However,Read More
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8 Steps to a More Productive Life
This post was updated August 30, 2021 When people find out I’m a productivity expert, they often ask, “How can I have a more productive life?” They probably expect me to give them a quick solution to boost their productivity at home and at work, so I usually start by sharing my definition of productivity.Read More
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Mindfulness: The Key to Changing Habits
Did you know that mindfulness is one key to changing your habits? Habits are formed through routine — a cue or trigger, followed by the behavior. Once you’ve done a specific routine many times, your brain associates the cue with the behavior, and a habit is formed. The more you perform the routine, the strongerRead More
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How to Stop Procrastinating and Improve Productivity
Note: This post was updated on January 2, 2023. Have you been struggling with how to stop procrastinating? If so, you’re far from alone. Up to 20% of people may be chronic procrastinators. And almost all of us struggle with procrastination at one time or another. Procrastination can feel good in the moment. That’s whyRead More
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Creating Positive Habits
I get asked a lot about how to handle “recurring tasks.” Then I ask for clarification of what a “recurring task” means to the person. Most of the time, what people are trying to figure out is how to incorporate new habits into their life. The Empowered Productivity System is full of new habits. SoRead More
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